On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi > > Recently a friend of mine brought a USB pen Drive (Flash Disk) of 500 > GB for Rs 1500-/ from Palika Bazaar. > If this is true, surely I would like to know the device specifications, and would like to own one for myself. > > First I don't believe it. However i tried it on my system and checked > using df -h and it showed 500 GB (free space 498 GB) > > Second its formatted to FAT 16. > > So my questions > 1. Incredible as it may be i refuse to belive that this small device > is actually 500 Gig so how does one verify that. I could copy data > and i think it will give up after about 10 GIg or less, but is there > any other way > 1)Test it in various partition editors/ Volume managers 2)Copy a image/movie of bigger size say 4-5 GB, and then duplicate same image multiple times so that it does not take any time but fill up the remaining space (This is the best idea I can think of...) > 2. What is the max size a FAT 16 partition (and FAT 32) be - i think > FAT partitions have a limit > > According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table FAT-12 32MB FAT-16 2GB(or 4GB with 64 bit cluster size) FAT-32 2TB (or 8TB or 16TB) :) > would appreciate tips. > > ram > PS if i am wrong i might have to eat an hat so look forward to some > tips to beat this ridiculous sized thumbdrive > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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